A study of autonomous underwater vehicle hull forms using computational fluid dynamics
✍ Scribed by T. Sarkar; P. G. Sayer; S. M. Fraser
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 310 KB
- Volume
- 25
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0271-2091
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✦ Synopsis
Reduction of the propulsive power requirement by ef®cient hull form design is one of the important requirements for the successful operation of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). In the absence of reliable and suf®ciently accurate experimental data this will require experimental analysis of a large number of hull forms, a task which is both expensive and time-consuming. Recent developments in computational ¯uid dynamics (CFD) can offer a cost-effective solution to this problem. In this paper such a method is developed to simulate the ¯ow past axisymmetric AUVs. Its application is discussed for four different hull forms.